Thinking about Oneself: From Nonconceptual Content to the Concept of a Self
Kristina Musholt
Abstract
This book offers a novel theory of self-consciousness, understood as the ability to think about oneself. The book’s aim is to explain this ability and its development. It argues for a non-self-representationalist theory, according to which the self is not part of the representational content of perception and bodily awareness but part of the mode of presentation. It distinguishes between implicitly self-related information and explicit self-representation and proposes a model for the gradual transition from the self-related information that is implicit in the nonconceptual content of perceptio ... More
Keywords: self-consciousness, nonconceptual content, perception, bodily experience, non-self-representationalism, intersubjectivity, social cognition, developmental psychology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780262029209 |
| Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: January 2016 | DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262029209.001.0001 |
